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HB0025 • 2023

School capital construction-transfers and distributions.

AN ACT relating to public funds; revising distribution of funds from the school major maintenance subaccount within the strategic investments and projects account and the school lands mineral royalties account to the school capital construction account as specified; clarifying the timing of transfers from the strategic investments and projects account; and providing for an effective date.

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Inactive

Wyoming marks this bill as inactive, which usually means it is no longer moving in the current session.

Sponsor
Sel Sch Fac
Last action
2023-02-24
Official status
inactive
Effective date
3/1/2023

Plain English Breakdown

The bill summary does not provide details on how transferred funds will be used or what happens if there are no unobligated funds available to transfer.

School Construction Funding Changes

This act changes how money is distributed from certain accounts to help build and maintain school buildings.

What This Bill Does

  • Changes the way funds are moved from a special account for major maintenance of schools to another account used for building new or fixing old school structures.
  • Specifies that starting in July 2024, all money left over in the school major maintenance subaccount will be transferred to the school capital construction account at intervals determined by the state auditor.
  • Requires that all funds from the school lands mineral royalties account also go into the school capital construction account starting in July 2024.

Who It Names or Affects

  • Schools receiving funding for maintenance or new construction
  • The state auditor who decides when to transfer funds

Terms To Know

Strategic investments and projects account
A fund used by the state for important building and improvement projects.
School major maintenance subaccount
A part of a larger fund that holds money specifically for big repairs in schools.

Limits and Unknowns

  • The bill does not specify how the transferred funds will be used once they reach the school capital construction account.
  • It is unclear what happens if there are no unobligated funds available to transfer as required by the act.

Bill History

  1. 2023-02-24 Senate

    S:Died in Committee Returned Bill Pursuant to SR 5-4

  2. 2023-02-24 Senate

    S No report prior to CoW Cutoff

  3. 2023-02-07 Senate

    S Introduced and Referred to S04 - Education

  4. 2023-01-26 Senate

    S Received for Introduction

  5. 2023-01-26 House

    H 3rd Reading:Passed 37-24-1-0-0

  6. 2023-01-25 House

    H 2nd Reading:Passed

  7. 2023-01-24 House

    H COW:Passed

  8. 2023-01-20 House

    H Placed on General File

  9. 2023-01-20 House

    H02 - Appropriations:Recommend Do Pass 7-0-0-0-0

  10. 2023-01-10 House

    H Introduced and Referred to H02 - Appropriations

  11. 2023-01-06 House

    H Received for Introduction

  12. 2022-12-09 LSO

    Bill Number Assigned

Current Bill Text

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23LSO-0124
2023
STATE OF WYOMING
23LSO-0124
Numbered
2.0

HOUSE BILL NO. HB0025

School capital construction-transfers and distributions.

Sponsored by: Select Committee on School Facilities

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to public funds; revising distribution of funds from the school major maintenance subaccount within the strategic investments and projects account and the school lands mineral royalties account to the school capital construction account as specified; clarifying the timing of transfers from the strategic investments and projects account; and providing for an effective date.

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:

Section 1
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W.S. 9
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220(b)(i), 9
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220.1(b) and 9
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224 are amended to read:

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220.

Strategic investments and projects account created; purposes.

(b)

For fiscal year 2021

and in each fiscal year thereafter unencumbered and unobligated funds available for expenditure in the strategic investments and projects account shall be expended for the following purposes and subject to the following:

(i)

An amount equal to forty
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five percent (45%) of the maximum amount which may be credited to the strategic investments and projects account pursuant to W.S. 9
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719(q) shall be credited to a school major maintenance subaccount. Funds within the subaccount shall be expended only for school major maintenance

obligations of the state.

For purposes of accounting and investing only, the school major maintenance subaccount shall be treated as a separate account from the strategic investments and projects account
. Beginning July 1, 2024 for fiscal year 2025 and each fiscal year thereafter, at intervals determined by the state auditor to manage cash flow, the state auditor shall transfer all funds from the school major maintenance subaccount to the school capital construction account established under W.S. 21
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111(a)(i)
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220.1.

Wyoming state penitentiary capital construction account; funds transferred to the account.

(b)

Beginning on June 30, 2021 for fiscal year 2021 and June 30 of each fiscal year thereafter as provided in this subsection,
after all transfers required under W.S. 9
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220(b)(i),
the state treasurer shall transfer ten million dollars ($10,000,000.00), or as much thereof as is available, from any unobligated funds within the strategic investments and projects account to the Wyoming state penitentiary capital construction account. The state treasurer shall cease transferring funds to the Wyoming state penitentiary capital construction account pursuant to this subsection on July 1, 2038.

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224.

School lands mineral royalties account.

The school lands mineral royalties account is created. Funds within the account shall only be expended upon legislative appropriation. All funds within the account shall be invested by the state treasurer as authorized by law and all investment earnings from the account shall be credited to the school lands mineral royalties account.
Beginning July 1, 2024 for fiscal year 2025 and for each fiscal year thereafter, at intervals determined by the state auditor to manage cash flow, the state auditor shall transfer all funds from the school lands mineral royalties account to the school capital construction account established under W.S. 21
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111(a)(i).

Section 2
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This act is effective immediately upon completion of all acts necessary for a bill to become law as provided by Article 4, Section 8 of the Wyoming Constitution
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